Re: st: reshape WDI from wide to long format

I hope this response is not somewhat irritating.
As much as I know, if you get data from WDI, you can obtaint the same
data with proper colomns and rows as we desire. All is what to do is
to arrange the data online via Beyond 20/20 or World Bank new format
to be downloaded.
And rest of the discussion is left over for the experts and my
teachers in Stata.
Anees Muhammad
On 16 May 2011 19:41, Sami Alameen <samialameen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, the data is list with the following column headers:
>
> countryname countrycode seriesname seriescode y1960 ...... y2010
>
> My question is how to plug these variables into the reshape command
> Some of u will suggest using user written commands, they keep failing
> no matter how many variables, countries, or years I drop.
> So simply if Stata can do it with the built in commands what is the
> right syntax to use?
>
> All the best
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